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the sole test for whether or not property was agricultural

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property was that it be devoted to agricultural use. Now,

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since you have deleted that description and have just put

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in the generic adjective "agricultural," is it the intention

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of the committee that the sole test for whether a property is

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agricultural or not be determined by its use?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.

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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Let me in some sense perhaps

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avoid; your question but state what we did and then if you

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have a further question, fine.

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As it came to us from a subcommittee, it was

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changed for purposes -- the subcommittee thought of

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clarification by changing it to "agricultural property" as

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defined by the General Assembly law. When this was dis-

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cussed in the subcommittee the question was raised, Had then

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been any substantive change?

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The question was put to those who were involved

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in our subcommittee and Mr. Walker Lewis who was there as

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the staff adviser to the Committee on State Finance and

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Taxation, and in turn it was put to other members of the

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Committee on State Finance and Taxation and we were assured